From: Roopni Devanathan <roopni.devanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: ath12k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Manish Dharanenthiran <manish.dharanenthiran@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Roopni Devanathan <roopni.devanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: Fix the assignment of logical link index
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:49:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260226041911.2434999-1-roopni.devanathan@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
From: Manish Dharanenthiran <manish.dharanenthiran@oss.qualcomm.com>
Per-link logical index is assigned from the global counter,
ahsta->num_peer. This logical index is sent to firmware during peer
association. If there is a failure in creating a link station,
ath12k_mac_free_unassign_link_sta() clears the link, but does not decrement
the logical link index. This will result in a higher logical link index for
the next link station created. Also, if there is a leak in logical link
index as we assign the incremented num_peer, then the index can exceed the
maximum valid value of 15.
As an example, let's say we have a 2 GHz + 5 GHz + 6 GHz MLO setup. So the
logical link indices that they have are 0, 1 and 2, respectively. If the
5 GHz link is removed, logical link index 1 becomes available, and num_peer
is not reduced to 2 and still remains at 3. If a new 5 GHz link is added
later, it gets the index 3, instead of reusing link index 1. Also,
num_peer is increased to 4, though only 3 links are present.
To resolve these, create a bitmap, free_logical_link_idx, that tracks the
available logical link indices. When a link station is created, select the
first free logical index and when a link station is removed, mark its
logical link index as available by setting the bit.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.6-01181-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Signed-off-by: Manish Dharanenthiran <manish.dharanenthiran@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopni Devanathan <roopni.devanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h
index 990934ec92fc..5498ff285102 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ struct ath12k_sta {
u16 links_map;
u8 assoc_link_id;
u16 ml_peer_id;
- u8 num_peer;
+ u16 free_logical_link_idx_map;
enum ieee80211_sta_state state;
};
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index 68431a0e128e..db1b098b67d0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -6784,6 +6784,8 @@ static void ath12k_mac_free_unassign_link_sta(struct ath12k_hw *ah,
return;
ahsta->links_map &= ~BIT(link_id);
+ ahsta->free_logical_link_idx_map |= BIT(arsta->link_idx);
+
rcu_assign_pointer(ahsta->link[link_id], NULL);
synchronize_rcu();
@@ -7102,6 +7104,7 @@ static int ath12k_mac_assign_link_sta(struct ath12k_hw *ah,
struct ieee80211_sta *sta = ath12k_ahsta_to_sta(ahsta);
struct ieee80211_link_sta *link_sta;
struct ath12k_link_vif *arvif;
+ int link_idx;
lockdep_assert_wiphy(ah->hw->wiphy);
@@ -7120,8 +7123,16 @@ static int ath12k_mac_assign_link_sta(struct ath12k_hw *ah,
ether_addr_copy(arsta->addr, link_sta->addr);
- /* logical index of the link sta in order of creation */
- arsta->link_idx = ahsta->num_peer++;
+ if (!ahsta->free_logical_link_idx_map)
+ return -ENOSPC;
+
+ /*
+ * Allocate a logical link index by selecting the first available bit
+ * from the free logical index map
+ */
+ link_idx = __ffs(ahsta->free_logical_link_idx_map);
+ ahsta->free_logical_link_idx_map &= ~BIT(link_idx);
+ arsta->link_idx = link_idx;
arsta->link_id = link_id;
ahsta->links_map |= BIT(arsta->link_id);
@@ -7630,6 +7641,7 @@ int ath12k_mac_op_sta_state(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (old_state == IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST &&
new_state == IEEE80211_STA_NONE) {
memset(ahsta, 0, sizeof(*ahsta));
+ ahsta->free_logical_link_idx_map = U16_MAX;
arsta = &ahsta->deflink;
base-commit: 62f9b9b19939138c34ce0ac1e5d4969d617ecbb6
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 4:19 Roopni Devanathan [this message]
2026-02-27 10:33 ` [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: Fix the assignment of logical link index Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2026-02-27 10:37 ` Baochen Qiang
2026-02-28 6:46 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram
2026-03-06 21:18 ` Jeff Johnson
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